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Instructors want to reduce their risk of exposure, which is understandable. But serving that interest also means a lot of international students will lose their

Instructors want to reduce their risk of exposure, which is understandable. But serving that interest also means a lot of international students will lose their visas. Would limiting seats in class to just international students be a good way to reconcile both parties' interests? Edit: this would raise issues of fairness and equal treatment (a lot of students, especially those not accustomed to remote learning, would feel cheated). There probably is no perfect solution.

st1ck 6y ago
With in-person classes, instructors (and students, and everyone) will get infected because of how the virus works, and there is not that much one can do about it until vaccine or herd immunity is developed. Students will lose their visas because of bureaucratic BS which can be changed anytime, but probably won't be because of the current political climate. So, one concern is grounded in nature, another in bureaucracy, I don't think there is much of reconciliation. Although I agree completely that students are not getting what they paid for (if they paid for in-person classes).